Power restoration nearly complete in Michigan

Power restoration is nearly complete for more than 678,000 Michigan homes and businesses that lost power in a damaging Midwestern storm.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DETROIT (AP) ? Power restoration is nearly complete for more than 678,000 Michigan homes and businesses that lost power in a damaging Midwestern storm.

Utilities reported a few thousand outages in Michigan as of late Thursday or early Friday. Two people in Michigan died in the storm, which hit Sunday and brought damaging winds and several tornadoes.

In all, the storm affected about 334,000 customers of CMS Energy Corp.'s Consumers Energy unit, about 302,000 customers of DTE Energy Co., about 42,000 customers of Indiana Michigan Power in Michigan and some customers of other utilities.

Remaining Consumers and DTE outages are expected to be fixed by the end of the day Friday. Indiana Michigan Power says all of its affected customers had power again as of Thursday evening.

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